Vinod Khosla Quotes

In the next 10 years, data science and software will do more for medicine than all of the biological sciences together.

Any problem is an opportunity. The bigger the problem, the bigger the opportunity.

Success comes to those that dare to dream dreams and are foolish enough to try and make them come true.

It doesn't matter what your probability of failure is. If there's a 90% chance of failure, there's a 10% chance of changing the world.

By 2025, 80 percent of the functions doctors do will be done much better and much more cheaply by machines and machine learned algorithms.

In my view, it’s irreverence, foolish confidence and naivety combined with persistence, open mindedness and a continual ability to learn that created Facebook, Google, Yahoo, eBay, Microsoft, Apple, Juniper, AOL, Sun Microsystems and others.

The willingness to fail gives us the freedom to succeed.

You have to invent the future you want.

Innovative, bottom-up methods will solve problems that now seem intractable—from energy to poverty to disease. Science and technology, powered by the fuel of entrepreneurial energy, are the largest multipliers of resources we have to solve our many social problems.

One of the best things data can enable us to do is to ask questions we didn't know to ask.

Doctors can be replaced by software – 80% of them can. I’d much rather have a good machine learning system diagnose my disease than the median or average doctor.

An entrepreneur is someone who dares to dream the dreams and is foolish enough to try to make those dreams come true.

The first rule of venture capitalism is hands-on experience. You have to get your hands dirty.

Everybody else is afraid to fail. I do not really care because when I fail, I try something new.

I don’t mind the low probability of success, but it better be impactful if we do succeed.

We humans think linearly but tech trends are exponential.

Electric cars are coal-powered cars. Their carbon emissions can be worse than gasoline-powered cars.

Not thinking it's possible is a failure of imagination.

Your cellphone has 10 sensors, and your car has 400. But your body has none - that's going to change.

Where most entrepreneurs fail is on the things they don't know they don't know.

I don’t mind failing, but if I succeed it better be worth succeeding for.

Spreadsheets are fiction. Believing in what you're doing and what you're building is what's important.

There's no doubt in my mind over the next 25 years how we drive, how we build our houses, how we fly, how we build our buildings, will all change.

Future is not extrapolation of past

Every big problem is a big opportunity.